In the debut author’s The Poet Empress (Bramble, Jan.), set in a world where poetry is magic but women aren’t allowed to read, a peasant girl becomes a prince’s concubine.

On the third Wednesday of each month, a circle of women gathers around a large table in the historic house section of Wyandotte’s Bacon Memorial District Library. Laptops hum, notebooks open, pens ...

Even if it takes more time, some coaches like Buzz Williams see value in writing by hand. Research suggests they might be on ...

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts will be released on Nov. 4.

"Spending time or coming in contact with creative music or artistic expression, whether it hits you or not, is never wasted." ...

One of the things I’ve learned in my grand old age is not to give advice,” says Michael Morpurgo. “Children often ask me at ...

My grandmother left Jerusalem in 1948 with a key that never found its lock again. She believed she would return before the tea cooled in its cup. The years hardened around that belief until it became ...

Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole exhibits a perspective that seems to sit outside of time. At times, Ghosh’s poems shift between humorous, profound, risqué and sensual. Others suggest a profound ...

“I love him so much. I love him more than I did yesterday, and I already know tomorrow I’ll love him even more, because every ...

There was a time when a glitterball was the realm of a cheesy seventies disco. And then came the Strictly Come Dancing ...

In “The Devil’s Done Come Back: New Ghost Tales from North Carolina,” edited by Ed Southern, a slate of contemporary Tar Heel ...